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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Nemotron 3 Super

Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads Nemotron 3 Super on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 30.1 to 12.8, and Nemotron 3 Super costs 33.3x less per output token ($0.45 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 37 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Sonnet 4.6 Replace Nemotron 3 Super
Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic
Coding
57.3
Overall
60.3
Output $/M
$15.00
36
Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$0.45
1
vs boards won of 37 shared

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Nemotron 3 Super: which to pick

Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a coding score, 57.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nemotron 3 Super has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Nemotron 3 Super for output tokens 33.3x cheaper ($0.45 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by IFBench, where it leads.

Model AClaude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic57.3/1005 independent benchmarks$1.68 per solved taskModel BNemotron 3 SuperNVIDIANot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
37
Claude Sonnet 4.6 only
86
Nemotron 3 Super only
2
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Claude Sonnet 4.6 57.3 from 5 benchmarks, Nemotron 3 Super not benchmarked.
Widest category
Agentic work, 20.9 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
AA Agentic Index: Claude Sonnet 4.6 31.8 against Nemotron 3 Super 1.7, 30.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Sonnet 4.6 $15.00 against Nemotron 3 Super $0.45 per million output tokens, 33.3x apart.
Context window
Claude Sonnet 4.6 takes 1M tokens, Nemotron 3 Super 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryClaude Sonnet 4.6BarsNemotron 3 SuperTies
Coding60
Intelligence10
Agentic work20
Reasoning50
Math20
Knowledge40
General161
All shared boards361
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index60
Coding benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
LiveBench coding66.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev1523Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
AA Coding Index63.037.7Claude Sonnet 4.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)82.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)77.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)55.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)39.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)57.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)49.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SciCode50.1%36.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)53.0%28.8%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Terminal-Bench53.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
FrontierCode24.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
WeirdML66.1%38.0%Claude Sonnet 4.6
ALE-BenchNot measured213.9Only Nemotron 3 Super measured
LMArena Text: coding15031403Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: software and IT14911409Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena WebDev: React1512Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1527Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1529Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA31.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SWE Atlas: Refactoring32.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SWE Atlas: Test Writing31.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
AA Intelligence Index30.112.8Claude Sonnet 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index152.8Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
AA Agentic Index31.81.7Claude Sonnet 4.6
Design Arena: agents building web apps1190Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1213Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1211Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1196Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1226Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1177Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench research63.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench browser68.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench long agentic23.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)51.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)25.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)38.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)60.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom79.5%67.8%Claude Sonnet 4.6
APEX-Agents43.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
OSWorld 2.09.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
DeepResearch Bench54.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
OSWorld72.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$7,204Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
MCP Atlas69.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
GPQA Diamond85.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench reasoning86.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)83.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)87.5%80.0%Claude Sonnet 4.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)33.6%20.8%Claude Sonnet 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)87.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI86.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI-260.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Chess puzzles23.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Mystery game puzzles16.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14851386Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: expert15001398Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14931397Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams1306Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: homework1311Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Math benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
AIME92.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
OTIS Mock AIME85.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
ProofBench45.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: math14621380Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work14831405Claude Sonnet 4.6
MathArenaNot measured16.6%Only Nemotron 3 Super measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
MMLU Pro87.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)82.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)64.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)65.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)77.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)67.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
MedQA (Vals AI)92.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SimpleQA Verified35.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: science14741387Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14511383Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: legal and government14701392Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14641364Claude Sonnet 4.6
FACTS Benchmark Suite37.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
Design Arena: websites1284Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: UI components1269Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: game dev1258Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: data viz1278Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: 3D1234Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: all code categories1275Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: SVG1196Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1235Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LiveBench design71.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index161
General benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
LiveBench data analysis76.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)62.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)46.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Vals Multimodal Index60.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
IFBench56.6%71.5%Nemotron 3 Super
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)80.0%65.7%Claude Sonnet 4.6
DTBench89.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMCA46.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
ExploitBench23.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text14581378Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: instruction following14761347Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14351317Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision1283Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: English14721400Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: non-English14401356Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Chinese14911431Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: German14281341Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Japanese1420Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: Korean1410Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: French14651403Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Spanish14641418Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Russian14401336Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: Polish14431346Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn14641369Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: longer queries14791362Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14441332Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14311336Claude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision: English1298Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1307Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1296Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: humor1248Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1195Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1272Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
LMArena Document1482Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
EQ-Bench 41207Not measuredOnly Claude Sonnet 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nemotron 3 SuperLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.011Fits in one request
Nemotron 3 Super$0.0003Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Super costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.195Fits in one request
Nemotron 3 Super$0.0056Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Super costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.750Fits in one request
Nemotron 3 Super$0.021Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Super costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nemotron 3 Super
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
MakerAnthropicNVIDIA
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2026March 11, 2026
Context window1M262K
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.085
Output $/Mtok$15.00$0.45
Coding index57.3Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it50
Cost per solved task$1.68Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Nemotron 3 Super for coding?

Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a coding score, 57.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nemotron 3 Super has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Nemotron 3 Super for output tokens 33.3x cheaper ($0.45 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by IFBench, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Nemotron 3 Super?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Super costs $0.085 and $0.45. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Sonnet 4.6 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Nemotron 3 Super?

Claude Sonnet 4.6, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Nemotron 3 Super comparison based on?

37 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Nemotron 3 Super's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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